Contributors
- Contributors
Laura AgustÍn has a doctorate from the Pavis Centre for Cultural Studies at the Open University, U.K. Her research, which will be published by Zed Books in 2005, concerns the connections between migrations of non-European women to Europe, where they sell domestic, caring, and sexual services, and the large social sector that proposes to help them. She has worked extensively in educación popular both in Latin America and with migrants in various parts of the West. She is a member of the Society for International Development's project Women and the Politics of Place, and has been an evaluator of social programming for the International Labour Organization and the European Commission.
Gail Kligman is Professor of Sociology and Drector Designate of the Center for European and Eurasian Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. She has done extensive field research in Eastern Europe, particularly in Romania, both during and after socialism. She is the author of several books, including The Politics of Duplicity: Controlling Reproduction in Ceausescu's Romania (University of California Press, 1998) and, with Professor Susan Gal of the University of Chicago, The Politics of Gender After Socialism (Princeton University Press, 2000). She is presently codirecting a historical ethnographic project with Professor Katherine Verdery at University of Michigan, on the transformation of property, persons, and state: collectivization in Romania, 1949–62.
Stephanie Limoncelli is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has extensive experience in poverty research and has published on gender and race/ethnicity in welfare programs. Her dissertation research is on the history of the international traffic in women for prostitution and the responses of international voluntary associations and state officials who seek to combat it.
Pavla Miller is Associate Professor of Historical Sociology at RMIT in Melbourne. Her publications include Long Division: State Schooling in South Australian Society (Wakefield, 1986) and Transformations of Patriarchy in the West, 1500–1900 (Indiana, 1998). She is currently working on contemporary dynamics and understandings of fertility rates, ethnicitym and social relations. Part of the project involves interviews with people of Italian origin in Australia.
Joyce Outshoorn is Professor of Women's Studies at Leiden University, Head of the Joke Smit Research for Women's Studies, and also affiliated to the Political Science Department. She is codirector of the Research Network on Gender Politics and the State. She has published extensively on women's movements, women's public policy, and abortion politics, including her most recent edited collection, The Politics of Prostitution: Women's Movements, Democratic States and the Globalisation of Sex Commerce (Cambridge University Press, 2004).
Anne Skevik is Senior Research Fellow at NOVA (Norwegian Social Research) in Oslo. She holds a doctorate degree in sociology from the University of Oslo. Her research interests include lone parenthood, comparative family policy, and child maintenance arrangements. Recent publications include Family Ideology and Social Policy: Policies toward Lone Parents in Norway and the UK (2001, NOVA Report Series 7), “Children of the Welfare State: Individuals with Entitlements, or Hidden in the Family?” (Journal of Social Policy, 2003), and “Family Economy Workers or Caring Mothers? Male Breadwinning and Widows' Pensions in Norway and the UK” (Feminist Economics, 2004).
Angelika von Wahl is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at San Francisco State University. Her comparative research focuses on Western Europe and the United States, the European Union, welfare state politics, welfare regimes, labor markets, equal employment, law, and gender. She is author of Equal Employment Regimes: Equal Employment Opportunities for Women in Germany and the USA (Leske und Budrich, 1999) and Between Heritage and Holocaust: The Perception of Germany among German Jewish Immigrants (Peter Lang, 1992). She is currently working on a comparative research project on human rights abuse and reparations in Germany, Japan, and the United States.
